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Chapter 12: Chapter 12
I haven't written in so long I know. And I told you that I would put up a new chapter like a month ago. First my computer broke and then I tried writing it, but just everything I wrote sounded like crap so I kept re writing this chapter. We've had so much homework lately and I've been real busy. I'm real sorry for completely ignoring you guys but I just couldn't write and if I did it would have been short crappy chapters that didn't make sense.
Real sorry though. I made this chapter real long so…yea enjoy
EPOV
I ran a hand threw my hair making it even worse than usual. I was real nervous leaning against my car trying to act cool. And I didn't even know if Bella would show up.
What if it was just her way of messing with me? No. She said she wanted to be friends, and Bella's not evil. She's sweet, and caring, and beautiful, and....everything good in the world.
2 tiny hands reached across me covering my eyes
"Hey Eddie," I heard the oh so familiar (though I hadn't really talked to her that much) voice.
"Guess who?"
"Hmm...." I said pretending I didn't know before pulling her hands away and quickly grabbing her waist swinging her around in front of me. I hugged her tightly loving the feel of her against my chest.
She froze in my arms before wrapping her arm around my neck.
I quickly realized her finally realizing what I was doing. I don't know what came over me? It didn't matter that it was Bella, or that I really like her; I'm supposed to hate Bella. Even if we are friends now, and I'm eventually going to make her my girlfriend, I think the hug kind of freaked her out.
To prove my suspicions she just stared at me confused for a minute.
"Ugh...I didn't think you'd come. I'm glad you did," Bella said smiling up at me. God I loved that smile.
"Why wouldn't I?"
She just shrugged. I took a minutes to look at her. Her hair was curled slightly waving down to the middle of her back in mahogany strands. She was wearing a pair of faded jeans with holes in the knee and a blue shirt that showed the tiniest amount of cleavage and the color looked wonderful with her skin.
"So...I was thinking if you weren't busy today.... we could you know...hang out," Bella stuttered suddenly becoming really shy and looking down at her converse. Like a date! Please please please let it is like a date. "Try to make this friend thing work ya' know. Maybe we could eventually kill the damn family war."
"Yea, sure." Of course it isn't a date you idiot! But that doesn't mean it couldn't be a date one day. I'll get her to fall for me. Be her friend first. I'll make Bella Swan fall for me.... somehow. "Sounds fun. What do you wanna do?"
"I don't know. It's Forks, there's not much we can do.... Oh we can go down to La Push? They've got cliff diving and the beach. Or we could go down to Seattle.... go see a movie, shop, whatever."
"Great!" If we planned a lot of things I could spend the whole day with Bella.
"To which one?" she asked.
I shrugged. "All of them," I added smiling my crooked smile that Alex once told me was the only reason I got girls.
She laughed, a tiny sound like wind chimes. "All of them it is, but we're gonna have to take your car. Mine got totaled the other day," Right the drunk driver ran into Bella's car. "And it probably wouldn't be able to make it even if it was still alive."
I quickly nodded my head.
"Mil lady," I said opening my car door as she laughed curtsied and then jumped in.
I jumped in the other seat and twisted my key in the ignition and the familiar purr of my (Toyota!!! haha kidding) Volvo.
"Wow," Bella said relaxing back into the seat behind her. "This is a really nice car. I never noticed," she trailed off mostly talking to herself now.
"Thanks. It was a present for my 16th birthday, and my prized position," I said proudly.
She whistled dragging it out. "Wow, you parents really are rich....," she said to herself.
I instantly felt bad, like I was bragging. I knew she didn't have the most money especially lately.
"Sorry," I mumbled running a hand threw my hair again.
"For what?" she looked up at me curiously but I kept my eyes on the road.
"Well....I know that your family doesn't exactly....have....a lot of money right now.....and I don't want to sound like I'm bragging."
"Yea you didn't," Bella said her voice suddenly sounding furious as she huffed and crossed her arms across her chest. "We're doing fine by the way!"
I sighed. Why was I such an idiot! I mentally hit myself in the head. "No! I didn't mean it like that....I just...." I was at a loss for words. Everything I said would just make her mad. And that was the last thing I wanted to do. I was trying to win her over, that ain't gonna help.
"Whatever Edward, I know you don't mean it like that. Just forget it alright?" she sighed and her arms fell limply to her sides.
"Sorry," I mumbled. "So where to first?"
"La Push?"
"Sure. Do you need something at your house? Swim suit or something?"
My mother always raised me to be a gentlemen, but I was still a man. And I really wanted to see Bella in a swimsuit. Maybe she'd wear a bikini…ah that'd be nice.
"Sure...you know where my house is," she added with a small giggle. "Are your parents home?" she asked suddenly getting worried.
"Nah, they left for the day."
"Mine too."
I stopped as I reached her house and I went with her in her house. She never really invited me in, but we were friends right? They don't invite, they don't ask they just come in. I really wanted to see the rest of her house, and it's not like she seems to mind in the least.
BPOV
I walked inside as Edward followed behind me looking a little lost.
I ran up the porch and lifted up a huge pot with a dying plant in it grabbing the key from underneath it.
"Don't tell anyone where that is," I said. "And now when you break in you can use the door and maybe not almost kill yourself falling out of a tree."
Edward pouted and I just laughed at his expression.
"I'll be back in a minute," I yelled behind me as I ran up the stairs. On the last step, I fell of course.
"You okay?" I heard Edward's concerned voice from downstairs.
"Yea, I'm fine," I yelled back and felt my cheeks burn red.
I jumped back up and ran to my room.
I yanked open my drawer and quickly scanned through the things there.
Ah, there it is.
It would be awkward, swimming with Edward. But it was my idea, and I didn't want to sound like a chicken to get out of swimming. I really liked Edward, more than I should. Way more than I should. But I couldn't help it. He's just too perfect!
I grabbed my book bag and stuffed 2 towels, sunscreen, my wallet, my cell phone, and my pod-pod in it.
I walked down the hallway looking at my feet and cursing them for being so clumsy.
I suddenly ran into something very hard and fell back. As my head was about to hit the floor I felt 2 big strong hands catch my arm and pull me up.
"You've got to be more careful Bella," Edward said and I could see the laughter in his gorgeous eyes. Gosh, he was so perfect. And when he looked at me like that, like I was the love of his life, it made my knees weak. I could barely stand right now.
"Okay," I sighed looking into his eyes. Suddenly I realized what I was doing and quickly jumped up away from Edward straightening out my clothes.
"We should probably go get your stuff now," I mumbled.
Edward just turned looking at the huge collage of pictures on the wall. It was my favorite part of the house besides my room. the entire wall was covered in pictures and you couldn't see the color of the wall because of it.
"That's a lot of pictures! You're not in too many of them," He noticed. "Why?"
"Usually I'm the one taking the pictures."
"Family vacation," he guesses pointing at a group of pictures.
I nodded. "It was the only time we went on a family vacation. Well....a vacation with all of the family anyway. Abby wasn't born on our other ones. My dad's afraid of flying, and Abby and Charlie get real car sick after driving to long. You can see the problem there."
"So what about you and Dylan." I noticed the flash of anger in his eyes as he said Dylan's name.
"We love the road, planes, traveling. When we were little we would always say how we were going to travel the world together."
"I've always wanted to travel the world, but it just seems too far. My sister had these huge lists of places she swore she would go one day; Paris, Italy, Ireland, Australia, France, and Indiana for some reason. She was kind of obsessed about Indiana when she was little."
Ok I officially sucked at small talk.
"Yea," Bella said her mind somewhere else and she looked both angry and confused.
I scanned the pictures on the wall. Bella and Dylan when they were about 6 one arm wrapped around each other's shoulder. Bella had a big toothy grin and wild brown hair while Dylan had a buzz cut and a smile way too big for his face. There was a picture of Charlie cross-eyed and tongue sticking out with little Bella on his shoulders laughing. There was one of Dylan trying to surf, but from the picture it didn't look like it was working out too well. There was one of Bella, it looked recent, and laughing on Dylan's bare back at the beach. There was a picture of Bella and Dylan and Charlie and Abby all having a 3-legged race. I'm sure you can guess who won there. There was one of Dylan and Bella both holding one of Abby's hands as they swung her back and forth. There was one of Abby squirting the hose directly at the camera. There was one of Bella holding a bouquet of flowers and a pale yellow dress blushing a cute smile as she walked down a long isle (Flower girl incase that wasn't obvious)
One of my favorite though was a picture of all of them at the beach. It was real sunny and the skies were such a color of blue that it must have been California. They were all sitting on a blue blanket. Dylan was just wearing some jean short and his hair was dripping wet. He was on the left of Charlie. Bella was on the right of Charlie. She looked so beautiful. She was wearing a tank top that showed her stomach up to a bit above her belly button and was a lovely blue color with green Hawaiian style flowers on it. She was wearing one of those wrap things around her waist that was black with tye-dye little patterns on it. It showed off her extremely long pale legs with the slightest of tans. Her hair fell down her shoulders and back in gorgeous silken strands and placed behind her ear just barely peaking out was a bright yellow dandelion. Sitting in Charlie's lap was little Abby and she had a huge toothy grin that could probably blind somebody and she was holding a red, white, yellow, and blue beach ball in front of her so that just you could only see her head it was so big. They were all smiling brightly at the camera and they all looked like they were glowing.
"That's our famous picture," Bella said breaking me out of my thoughts. "My dad puts on our Christmas cards even though it completely doesn't fit. He even made me a bag for my birthday with that on it. He has the picture blown up in a few places including his work. It's famous."
"You all look like your glowing. You're all so happy. You really look beautiful in this. It shows your personality. Happy, full of life, with you're gorgeous smile and bright eyes. I don't think I've ever seen you like that, but it's so you."
I turned to see Bella looking at me with this glazed look in her eyes and a goofy smile on her face.
Suddenly Bella blinked back to normal and a lovely shade of pink rose in her cheeks. "Thanks," she mumbled looking down at the floor.
"Well hurry up and go get some swim trunks from your house I've already got 2 towels so were good."
I saluted and ran out the door.
Why was Bella looking at me like that? It was almost like she liked me, more. Was this plan really working? Lost in the memory. That was the only reasonable explanation for why she was looking at me like that. She was just lost in the happy memory.
BPOV
I really had to control myself better. I don't want to ruin the friendship. I really liked Edward, and not just because of his looks. I liked the way his mind works and how he isn't perverted in the slight like most guys are. I liked how he really cared about his family even if I might hate them. I loved how he can see past the mask. I bet he could see through everything in that way. Everything except my heart. I was falling and falling hard for him. I didn't just like Edward. It was more. But he doesn't like me back. Or at least it seemed that way. I don't want to fall for him so hard that when he says he just wants to be friends I can't take it.
That's it for now and I'll try to update once a week but Spring break is coming up. I don't know if I'm gonna be too busy to work too much on this or it'll give me more time, but I will try to update a lot faster. Please review I love the feedback!
